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On 24 and 25 April, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) participated in a national victim assistance meeting in Lima, Peru. Photo © MineBanConvention ISU.
The meeting of Intersessional Standing Committees (ISC) of the Mine Ban Treaty (MBT) will take place from 27 to 30 May 2013 at the WMO building in Geneva, Switzerland. The meeting will be followed on Friday, 31 May by a workshop on victim assistance.
Annual Transparency Reports Due 30 April!
Global campaigns against landmines and cluster munitions call for end to these weapons on International Day of Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action
(Geneva, 4 April 2013) Members of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) in close to 50 countries around the world today are calling on states to put an end to the use of landmines and cluster munitions immediately and to address their deadly legacy.
(04/02/2013, last updated: 04/04/2013) Read more » ( English )
On March 18, the Afghan Landmine Survivors’ Organization (ALSO) organized a Survivors' Swimming race in Kabul, to mark the 14th anniversary of the Mine Ban Treaty entry into force. The race was one of several ICBL member Lend your Leg (LYL) global actions for mine awareness and mine action and was the first such event to take place in Afghanistan.
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(Geneva, 1 March 2013): On the fourteenth anniversary of the Mine Ban Treaty’s entry into force, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) is calling on governments and the public to “Lend Your Leg” to the global effort to end the suffering caused by landmines.
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Thanks to Handicap International Germany, you can listen to campaigners around the world, calling on people to "Lend Your Leg for a world without mines" in their own language: http://bit.ly/LYL2013-Audio
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(Geneva, 14 February 2013): The International Campaign to Ban Landmines is deeply concerned by recent reports of landmine use by insurgent groups in the Malian conflict. Read more here..
(12/02/2013, last updated: 13/02/2013) Read more » ( English )
Paris, Wednesday 16 January – The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) joined Handicap International, Human Rights Watch and the Arms Observatory to participate in the conference "Acting Together for Humanitarian Disarmament."
The seventh edition of the ICBL-CMC newsletter includes news on ICBL's 20th Anniversary celebrations, the latest states to ratify the Convention on Cluster Munitions, the Humanitarian Disarmament Campaigns Summit and UN General Assembly in New York, along with updates from the Survivor Network Project and the latest from the national campaigns. Read it online here.
On 10 December, 1997, Jody Williams and Tun Channareth (on behalf of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines-ICBL) were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their respective work to rid the world of landmines. Fifteen years later, and twenty years after the founding of the campaign, the two advocates share their thoughts on what the campaign has achieved and the importance of the Prize to bringing global awareness to the issue of antipersonnel landmines and support for landmine survivors.
All European Union now on board -- the United States a lone hold out among NATO states
On 27 December at the United Nations in New York, Poland became the 161st nation to join the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. "We warmly welcome Poland as a full member of the mine ban community. This ratification shows that all countries can and should renounce antipersonnel landmines forever. We hope other countries will now follow in Poland's footsteps, particularly the US." said Kasia Derlicka, ICBL Director.